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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Betty Jean say is the worst that can happen when a Negro pretends to be white?
(a) The person can go to jail.
(b) The person can lose his or her job.
(c) The person can be kicked out of the church.
(d) The person and his or her family can be killed.

2. What does Judy tell Marlee she needs to do in order to make good friends?
(a) Judy tells Marlee she has to talk less.
(b) Judy tells Marlee she needs to find someone she has things in common with.
(c) Judy tells Marlee she has to dress better.
(d) Judy tells Marlee she has to focus less on math.

3. What does Marlee's mother say when she finds out about what happened with Liz?
(a) She assumes Marlee is upset that Liz lied to her.
(b) She says Marlee should never have spoken up in class for her presentation.
(c) She says it is OK that Liz did what she did.
(d) She says Marlee was wrong to make friends with Liz.

4. Who is the first person in Marlee's house that she tells about what happened to Liz?
(a) Betty Jean.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Judy.
(d) Her father.

5. How does Judy react to her parents' plan for her to continue school?
(a) She threatens to run away from home.
(b) She is delighted.
(c) She does not really care one way or another.
(d) She is very upset.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pretty Boy?

2. What is the real reason Liz leaves school?

3. Who does Marlee meet at the Negro cinema who vouches for her?

4. What prop does Marlee use in her presentation on the Quapaw Indians?

5. How does Marlee's friend Sally treat her when she becomes overcome with anxiety at the pool?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marlee's father refuse to let Judy go to a private school?

2. How does Marlee decide to try to get a message to Liz after Liz can not come back to school?

3. What does Marlee's fear of jumping off the high dive in Chapter 1 represent?

4. How does Liz give Marlee her phone number so only Marlee will know what it is?

5. How does Marlee find out what really happened to Liz that prevents her from coming back to school?

6. Why does Marlee decide to give Liz a chance and agree to work on a school history project with her instead of with her usual partner Sally?

7. What does Marlee notice about the scientists she sees on T.V. who are involved in space exploration?

8. Why does Judy make Marlee promise to say at least one full sentence on her first day of school?

9. How does Marlee's father react when Marlee's mother tells him she has accepted a position to teach at a private school?

10. Why do Marlee's parents tell Judy and Marlee that Judy has to move to their grandmother's house in Pine Bluff?

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